Not bad for a quick morning of fishing! TV Show host and actor, Rick Kasper from California and his amigo, Scott Behnken, all the way from Ohio on his first-ever Baja fishing trip knocked out the yellowfin tuna off Las Arenas. Hopefully, the tuna season is going to kick into gear full turbo soon! It’s that time of the year. To see more of Rick and Scott, check out this week’s video clip below!
The tuna were elusive this week, but the one day that Joe Fuschetti fished Las Arenas he found the tuna more than willing to go in a hot spot between the east side of Cerralvo Island and the 88 spot hammering nice-grade tuna like this one and back on the beach before noon. The next day, the same spot produced only a few small tuna and lots of bonito. Joe is a high school coach in Orange Co. , California and has fished with us many times over the years. He told me, “This was the best tuna fishing ever and my personal best tuna!”
Everytime they visit us, Jana and Lauren often outfish the guys. They come once-a-year with brother Scott McKenzie who fishes with us several times a year from Washington. The ladies fish every single day non-stop hardcore and next year want a full-week of fishing! Here, they pose with some of the dorado they caught fishing north of La Paz.
What a great shot of a leaping striped marlin! Dan Puetz had just had full shoulder re-constructive surgery and was still nursing it but ended up with two days of pulling on fish like this one. Sore, but happy! Another shot of Dan below with one of his dorado.
Dan was supposed to fish 3 days with us, but after two solid days of pulling on dorado and marlin, he laughingly decided to put up his feet and take it easy! Here’s one of the dorado he put in the boat posed at Balandra Bay.
They have been so few and far between this year, but Joe Arata of Pacifica CA got one of the much-sought-after wahoo near Cerralvo Island this past week. All year, I think we’ve only boated about 10 wahoo. Where are they? Our divers are seeing them way way down below the thermocline. Perhaps like last year, they’re just not coming up to the surface to feed. Fingers crossed. The fall is usually prime time for the skinnies!
Our BFF from La Ventana, James “Hawk” Davis gets in the report this week showing off a slug roosterfish he slammed and then released. The big pez gallos are still out there although now that there’s sardines around, more folks are out chasing dorado and tuna. This is the type of roosterfish that made the Las Arenas/ Cerralvo Area famous!
Limits of tuna for Mike Akiyoshi and his son, Kevin, from Redondo Beach. They pose with a pair of fish but filled their box with dorado their last day fishing out’ve La Paz. Congratulations especially to Kevin…he went home and proposed to his girlfriend!
Virgil Bascos was with us for his first trip to La Paz. He was looking for tuna and didn’t do so well, the the billfish and dorado were very cooperative as she shows off one of his dorado caught with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet.
No matter the age, it’s always great to have father-son trips! Two of the funniest guys we’ve had were Paul Zech and son, Mike, who fished 3 days with our Tailhunter La Paz fleet and stocked up on nice dorado like this one.
This lady not only like to fish…she CAN fish! Pam Sharp spent a week in our waters and blew up all kinds of fish like this trophy roosterfish off Cerralvo Island. Fish was released.
Roger Thompson has been in our fishing report so often, he’s a virtual poster-child. He makes the report again with another big rooster caught and released plus his classic fishing pose! Thanks, Roger!
VIDEO CLIP OF THE WEEK
TV Actor and host of the outdoor hunting show, “Living on the Wild Side” , Rick Kasper fished with his amigo, Scott Behnken, a few times this week and did a great little video clip for us. Check it out above, or see it on YOUTUBE by clicking this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeeSJ474u3w&list=UUSN0xdz-El64xBXmMhl_yvg&index=1&feature=plcp
UNEVEN FISHING BUT RODS STILL BEND ON DORADO WITH TUNA STILL TEASING!
La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report for Week of Aug. 5-12, 2012
Every day fishing this past week was at best…a surprise! I don’t want to go so far as to say it was anemic, but maybe “inconsistent” was a better word. I guess if you wanted to fill the ice chest, dorado continued to be solid for our anglers that fished with our La Paz fleet.
But, even for our La Paz anglers, it could be frustratingly good and bad. One day you could hammer limits and crazy good fishing and fill the fish box with dorado between 10 and 50 pounds. The next day..same spot…same captain….same good bait…seemingly similar conditions would produce 2 fish! With no rhyme or reason! Fortunately, most folks fished a number of day so the good days more than made up for the off-days! Besides the dorado there were still the occasional marlin, sailfish, roosterfish, pargo or cabrilla to round things out.
For our Las Arenas anglers, it was perhaps even more frustrating. Lots of finger-pointing at the yellow-“fun” tuna! They were the source of more teeth gnashing than any other fish this week.
Several days they came up live mad dogs! Boats plugged with fish and back on the beach before noon with no more energy or space for any more tuna. Fish from 10-50 pounds were boiling around boats in several spots near the south and east sides of Cerralvo Island. Everyone would go crazy. The next day…NOTHING! Maybe a bunch of bonito but the tuna were nowhere to be found!
On the plus-side…there were some nicer dorado if you chose not to chase the tuna and there were also our usual slugger-sized roosterfish up to 65 pounds this week.
That’s our story!
Jonathan and Jilly
Jonathan Roldan’s
Tailhunter International
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Tailhunter Weekly Fishing Report:
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